Returning ownership and control overidentity and data individuals

	The Web We Want
	Personal and social	Financial
	communications	interactions	we love

Apps built for
Web5 store their
data with you

The Pillars of Web5

	Verifiable	Decentralized
	Credentials	Web Nodes

apps and protocols.

Bob can discover all DIDs			•	No centralized providers or trusted authorities
indexed in the network to	DIDs and anchors PKI (key
independently resolve and
verify them.	in the network.
			•	No special utility tokens or subjective consensus
	T0	TN	•	Highly resistant to all forms of interdiction
	T0	TN	•	IDs can be made universally discoverable

id: did:example:hardtron

verificationMethod: { JWK }

Async Message
Threads

Send and receive messages over a
DID-encrypted universal network

The Anatomy of an Identity Wallet

Functions

DID Functions

Perform authentication and
manage authorizations (e.g. DWN authz capabilities)

Maintain and enforce which
DIDs are used with different
people, apps, and services

Alice’s DWN relays	2	5	Bob’s DWN relays
Bob’s response	2	5	the message

DWA Model

Decentralized Web Nodes

	Responsive	Work Offline	App-Like	Fresh

What are PWAs?

PWA stands for Progressive Web App, a standard for installable web apps that is implemented in

From PWAs to DWAs

	Local Cache	DWA	Local Cache

DID	1	2
DID		Alice fetches credentials from the
Resolver		Alice fetches credentials from the

		of the desired credential

Music to my ears
Alice’s remote DWN

It’s not fun to regurgitate your playlists over and over again for different music apps, so let’s stop doing that.

	Travel App
Alice grants her hotel, airline, and		Alice can grant any app she chooses


collection of trip-related data.		to help her visualize her itinerary.

DIDs + Decentralized Web Nodes can help unify these flows and experiences.

Web Apps, returning ownership and control over

identity and data to individuals.

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